Author: Doug Williams
Doug Williams is one of the authors writing for Outdoor Revival
Indian Tree Markers: Explore How Indians Used Bent Trees as Clever Trail Markers
Many people today do not know how to navigate without a GPS. Some younger generations do not even know how to use a paper map.…
Skeeter Snacks: Why Some People Get Bitten, and Others Don’t
You’re sitting around a campfire with friends and, as evening sets in, the local insects are coming out. Some of you are almost immediately targeted…
His ship was sunk by a U-Boat, he survived on a wooden raft for 133 days
In 1942, at the height of WWII, a 24-year-old Chinese man named Poon Lim was serving as a steward on a British merchant ship. The…
Grab your bedroll – you can spend the night in these ghost towns
Camping can be a lovely, quiet, outdoor pastime, but for those who require a little more thrill, it’s possible to camp in various ghost towns…
This Russian family was cut off from all human contact even unaware of WWII
Agafia Lykova has lived her entire life in the depths of the immense Siberian wilderness known as the taiga. For more than 70 years, she…
Fleeing to the jungle during the Vietnam War, they walked back out 40 years later
It was 1973 during the Vietnam War when a bomb went off in the village of Tram Kem and killed three of Ho Van Thanh’s…
He shouldn’t be alive,1500 miles from land an epic fight of survival
Steven Callahan had dreamed of crossing the Atlantic Ocean on a solo trip since he was 12 years old. He designed a 6.5-meter (21.3-foot) sloop…
Boat Sinks: Survives 3 days in air pocket 100 feet under water – incredible footage
The thought of a shipwreck is harrowing, but for Harrison Okene, his worst fears became a reality. Okene, a 29-year-old ship’s cook was working on…
In 1911 “the last wild Indian” Ishi emerged from the wilderness, the last member of his tribe
On August 29, 1911, a starving 50-year-old man walked out of the wilderness and into the town of Oroville in Northern California. The sheriff initially…
But Where Will We Live? Living Pods to Tiny Houses
Increasingly we hear reports about the difficulties many people have in finding affordable housing. A decade ago the housing market collapsed under the pressures of…